Imaginative contemplation based on The Starlight night by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Godawa, Marcin (author)

The question of poetry as related to religious contemplation reveals the double-sided problem of image. On the one hand, there is the poetical image which consists in the metaphorical character of speech supported by the whole range of artistic means. On the other hand, the use of images becomes yet more interesting when connected with religious contemplation which is defined in terms of looking at the truth. Hence, the poetical image may be the way for a contemplating beholder. In this field, the question arises how a poetical vision could act in contemplation following its special requirements. In order to emphasize its substantial significance, imagination, including fairy associations, will be the special object of this research. This purpose will be achieved through the analysis of The Starlight Night by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), interpreted in the context of Christian understanding of contemplation. The order of presentation implies the exposition of literary ability of the poem, a consideration of its relation to the essence of contemplation and, finally, a terminological proposition for this kind of prayer. The usefulness of a poetical image in a religious field will then be proved and described.

• Language: English
• Keywords: poetical image, Christian faith, contemplation, truth
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2020
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: Str. 565-574
• Numbering: Letn. 80, [št.] 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-163666
• UDC: 27-583
• ISSN on article: 0006-5722
• DOI: 10.34291/BV2020/03/Godawa
• COBISS.SI-ID: 44684035
• Publication date in RUL: 10.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Bogoslovni vestnik
• Shortened title: Bogosl. vestn.
• Publisher: Bogoslovna akademija, Bogoslovna akademija, Teološka fakulteta v Ljubljani, Teološka fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 0006-5722
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8745472

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Domišljijska kontemplacija na podlagi Zvezdnate noči Gerarda Manleya Hopkinsa

Abstract

Vprašanje pesništva v razmerju do verske kontemplacije razkriva dvojni problem podobe. Na eni strani stoji pesniška podoba, ki jo tvori metaforični značaj govora s širokim naborom umetniških pomenov; na drugi strani pa raba podob postane še zanimivejša ob njihovi navezavi na versko kontemplacijo, ki jo opredeljuje zrenje resnice. Na tak način je lahko pesniška podoba sredstvo nosilca kontemplacije. Tu se pojavlja vprašanje, na kakšen način lahko pesniški pogled deluje v okviru kontemplacije, ki ima svoje lastne zahteve. Da bi poudarili ključni pomen pesniške podobe, vključno z njenimi pravljičnimi asociacijami, v tej raziskavi posebno pozornost namenjamo prav omenjenemu vidiku. To dosegamo z analizo pesmi Zvezdnata noč Gerarda Manleya Hopkinsa (1844–1889), ki jo interpretiramo v kontekstu krščanskega razumevanja kontemplacije. Vrstni red predstavitve tematike vključuje pojasnitev literarnega naboja pesmi, njeno razmerje do bistva kontemplacije in predlog terminološke označbe takšne oblike molitve. Ob tem utemeljujemo in prikazujemo tudi uporabnost pesniške podobe na verskem področju.

• Keywords: pesniška podoba, krščanska vera, kontemplacija, resnica